The dream is over : the crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education

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The dream is over : the crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education

Title remainder

the crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education

Statement of responsibility

Simon Marginson

Creator

• Marginson, Simon, 1951-

Author

• Marginson, Simon, 1951-

Subject

• Higher education and state -- United States
• Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003
• Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003
• Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003 -- Influence
• Public universities and colleges -- California
• University of California (System)
• University of California (System)
• University of California (System) -- History
• Education, Higher -- California
• Education, Higher -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

"The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities are under growing pressure, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags way behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society, 4
• Free online access: JSTOR

Cataloging source

CUS

Dewey number

378.794

Index

index present

LC call number

LD729.8

LC item number

.M37 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society

Series volume

4